Beehive.



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To (115 whom it may concern:

' Be it known thatT, JOSEPH S. FINN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Neenah, in; the county of Vestmoreland and State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iiiBeehives; and I do hereby declare'the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable (ithers skilledthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same. p

This invention relates to bee hives and the primary object of theinvention is to construct a bee hive so that a pair or plurality ofhives. may be connected together for guiding the bees from one hive intothe other, by smoking them out prior to removing the honey from thehive.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a bee hive whichisprovided with a spout secured to one side thereof adjacent the upperendwhich provides forthe inserting of smoke into the interior of the beehive for forcing the bees out of the same, and also to provide arearwardly extending passage way upon the lower end of the hive throughwhich the bees pass out of the hive into a second hive which isconnected to the first hive by means of the rearwardly eX tendingpassage way.

With theforegoing and other objects in view this invention consists'insuch novel features of construction, combination and arrangement ofpartsas will-be hereinafter more fully described illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail ref erence will be had to theaccompanying drawings which show a sectional view through a pair of beehives as constructed in accordance with this invention.

In the drawings like characters of reference are used for designatinglike or corresponding parts. v V

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates therectangular body of the bee hive which has a roof or cover 2 detachablymounted thereupon, so that access may be gained to the interior of thebee hive for removing the honey therefrom. The re movable roof or cover2 is supported upon the upper end of the rectangular body portion 1 ofthe hive by an L-bracket 3 whic extends around the entire surface of thein nor side of the upper end of the body 1 of the bee hive, The beehivebody 1 has a I jC SE-PH PINN, OF N-EENAH', VIRGINTAL Specification ofLetters Patent.

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plurality of sustaine a; thtisides was Of and e'XtendiIig ifwardly intothe which are pfhvid'ed" supporting the hoiiey within the hive; Thelower end of the bee hive body 1 has a. plliralityof openings 5.

therein.

The hive body 1 has an inclined passage way or chute 6 secured to oneside thereof adjacent the upper end of the same, which chutecommunicates with the interior of the hive body 1 and has a swingabledoor 7 forming a closure for the communication between the chute and theinterior of the hive. The swingable door 7 is provided with a pluralityof openings 8 so that the bees may pass therethrough when it is sodesired or when they endeavor to enter the hive through the chute 6.

The hive body 1 has formed upon its lower end or secured thereto in anysuitable manner and projecting rearwardly from one side thereof a chute9 which forms a pas sage Way and communicates with the interior of thehive body 1 adjacent the lower end of the same. The chute or passage way9 is provided for connection with a chute or passage way 10 which isformed upon an identical hive structure 11. The hive 11 is constructedidentical with the construction of the hive 1 1 and the chute or passageways 9 and 10 of the hives 1 and 11 are connected by overlapping oftheir terminal ends as is indicated at 12 in the drawing, and by theinsertion of a king bolt 13 through the overlapping meeting ends of thechute.

en it is desired to extract the honey from the hive 1, the openings 5are closed. for preventing the bees from passing out of the hive throughthese openings, and the door 7 is swung inwardly and smoke is forcedinto the hive through the chute 6.

The forcing of the smoke into and through the chute 6 will drive thebees from the hive, and as the passage way or chute 9 is the only meansof egress from the hive eX- cept through the chute 6 through which thesmoke is being forced, the bees will naturally pass through the chute orpassage way 9 into he chute or passage way 10 and from there nto thehive structure 11, after which the honey may be removed from the hive 1without in any way seriously injuringthe bees which were in the hive andwhich have formed the honey therein.

In reducing the invention to practice certain minor features ofconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts may necessitatealterations to which the patentee is entitled provided such alterationsare comprehended within the scope of whatis claimed.

.What is claimed is In-a bee hive, a body portion having a plurality ofhoney carrying brackets carried therein, a cover detachably mounted uponthe upper open end of said body, an inclined chute formed upon one sideof said body, a door forminga closure for the. communication betweensaid chute and the interior of said hive'body, said hive being providedwith a plurality of openings extending through the sides thereofadjacent the lower end of the hive for permitting of passage of beesinto or out of the hive and a v transversely extending chute formed uponc Copies of this patent maybe obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). 0'.

